The fight between drake and Kendrick Lamar seems to have no end and this week it increased with new dumps that, as expected, They filled social networks and went viral within hours of being published..
The last of the songs was published this Sunday by Drake and was titled “The Heart Part 6“. This is his latest response to Lamar, for which he paraphrased the title of Kendrick’s singles saga of the same name.
In it, the 37-year-old rapper debunks allegations made by Lamar that he has a hidden daughter and that he has sexual relations with underage girls. According to Drake, it was he who gave this false information to Lamar’s team, who fell into his trap.
On the other hand, the Canadian also claims – without proven evidence – that Lamar was sexually abused as a child: “I’ve never been with someone underage, but now I understand why this is the angle you really get into,” he says, among other things.
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“The Heart Part 6” is just one of the many songs that the artists have been dedicating to each other over the past few days and weeks. Hip-hop’s latest feud began with Drake’s 2023 hit and J.Cole“First Person Shooter”, where Cole stated that he, Drake and Kendrick made up the so-called “Big Three” of hip-hop.
Lamar then responded with a surprise verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s song, “Like That,” saying “fuck the ‘Big 3’, nigga only I’m big”. Cole responded with his own song called “7 Minute Drill,” but later regretted it, apologized for its release, and removed the single from streaming services.
What seemed to have started as something without much relevance between the two renowned rappers, thickened as the days went by. Both Lamar and Drake raised their bets and brought out the heavy artillery, captured in some other songs full of harsh and controversial bars. Check them out below.
From Drake to Kendrick Lamar
“Push Ups (Drop & Give Me 50)”
After Cole’s apology, Drake upped the ante and directly confronted Lamar with this song. In it, the rapper discredits Kendrick’s work, arguing that other artists like SZA or Travis Scott supplanted him. “Midget, calm down / You ain’t in no Big Three / SZA cleaned you up / Travis cleaned you up / [21] Savage cleaned you up“Raps Drake.
“Taylor Made Freestyle”
Drake’s second track was “Taylor Made Freestyle,” a song that incorporates the artificial intelligence (AI)-generated vocals of Tupac Shakur in the first verse and Snoop Dogg in the second. The last verse features Drake. In it, Drizzy claims the reason Lamar hadn’t responded yet was because he didn’t want to be overshadowed by the release of Taylor Swift’s eleventh studio album., The Tortured Poets Department.
“Family Matters”
“Family Matters” is Drake’s third shot at Lamar and is the most poignant of all, as it gets into issues of his personal life and accuses him of hitting his wife. “They hired a crisis management team to clean up the fact that you hit your queen“, raps the author of “God’s Plan”.
From Kendrick to Drake
“Euphoria”
“Euphoria” was Kendrick’s first response to Drake and comes across as a devastating evisceration of Drizzy’s identity. “We don’t want to hear you say ‘nigga’ ever again,” Lamar slides. “You are a master manipulator,” he continues. “You’re not a rap artist, you’re an approval-seeking fraud.”.
“6:16 in LA”
“6:16 in LA” was Lamar’s second throw to Drake and featured the inclusion of Jack AntonoffTaylor Swift’s historic collaborator and producer in the production, something that seems like a direct reference to “Taylor Made Freestyle.”
On “6:16 in LA,” Lamar also references Drake’s affinity for memes, rapping: “You’re playing dirty with Zack Bia and Twitter bots / But your reality can’t hide behind Wi-Fi / Your little memes are losing steam, you got caught“.
“Meet the Grahams”
“Meet the Grahams” is a direct response to “Family Matters” and Kendrick’s third throwdown to Drake, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham. In it, Lamar calls Drake a “master manipulator,” “with inclinations of a nympho fetish,” who is hiding a secret daughter.
If what Lamar says is true, this would be the second daughter that Drake kept out of the public knowledge. In fact, the existence of her son, Adonis, was revealed by Pusha T in the song “The Story of Adidon.”
“Not Like Us”
In the last of his songs dedicated to Drake, “Not Like Us”, Lamar does not bite his tongue and directly calls Drake a “pedophile”making a play on words with the title of one of his latest albums, Certified Lover Boy: “Certified lover?? / Certified pedophile,” Lamar raps.
